This Time, Unpredictable Jet Coughs on Takeoff; Tobe Gooden
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Last November, a little more than a
week after Tobe Gooden had flown an exhibition with the late Jimmy
Rossi (killed just after the Caribbean Airshow, in his F-86), Col.
Tobe Gooden had a close call with his MiG-15. It
wasn't serious, but he tore up some turf at the end of the
runway at Monroe (LA) when the MiG's brakes didn't go their job. At
that time, ANN News-Spy Mike Sweezy just happened to be above the
airport, and snapped a couple pix of the stranded MiG.
This Wednesday, a potentially far-more-serious mishap
occured.
ANN News-Spy Doug McDowall has sent the
following news tip: "A MiG-15 flown by Col. Tobe Gooden, 59, of
Spring (TX) crashed at 4:14pm Wednesday afternoon at Little Rock
National Airport, Adams Field (LIT). Gooden was uninjured and the
MIG suffered damage after losing power, impacting & running off
the end of the runway and through the airport perimeter fence &
across a road into brush. Gooden had made a fuel stop at LIT
enroute to perform in this weekend's airshow in Bloomington,
Indiana.
"According to the story in today's Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, the MiG was about 10ft in the air above the
5100 ft runway 18 when the Soviet fighter shook and began to lose
power and pour out smoke. Gooden decided to put 'er back on the
ground and ran out of runway, crashed through the fence, crossed
the perimeter road and rolled into thickets near railroad tracks.
FAA spokesman quoted in the story was John Clabes and investigators
from the NTSB were also on the site."
These MiGs were treacherous 50 years ago, when they were new.
Now, the design spans fully half the history of flight... and
things are bound to happen. Col. Gooden escaped injury again,
keeping his wits about him, and flying the airplane.
** Report created 7/17/2003 Record
1 **
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 15PE
Make/Model: MG15 Description:
MIG-15BIS MIKOYAN
Date: 07/16/2003 Time: 2100
Event Type: Accident Highest Injury:
None Mid Air: N Missing:
N
Damage: Substantial
LOCATION
City: LITTLE ROCK State: AR Country:
US
DESCRIPTION
ACFT AFTER TAKEOFF, ABORTED AND OVERRAN THE BOUNDARY, OTHER
CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNKNOWN, LITTLE ROCK, AR
INJURY DATA Total Fatal:
0
# Crew: 1 Fat:
0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat:
0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk:
# Grnd:
Fat: 0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk:
WEATHER: METAR KLIT 162053Z 19003KT 7SM SCT050 34/24 A3010 RMK MDT
CU OHD
OTHER DATA
Activity: Pleasure Phase:
Take-off Operation: General
Aviation
Departed: LITTLE ROCK,
AR
Dep Date: 07/16/2003 Dep. Time:
Destination: BLOOMINGTON,
IN Flt Plan:
IFR Wx
Briefing: Y
Last Radio Cont: LIT ATC
Last Clearance: TAKEOFF CLEAR
FAA FSDO: LITTLE ROCK, AR
(SW11)
Entry date: 07/17/2003
Here's a recap of last year's minor incident:
** Report created 11/12/02 Record 2
**
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 15PE
Make/Model: MG15 Description:
MIG-15
Date: 11/11/2002 Time: 2045
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury:
None Mid Air: N Missing:
N
Damage: Minor
LOCATION
City: MONROE State: TX Country:
US
DESCRIPTION
ACFT REPORTED A BRAKE FAILURE, ON LANDING, ROLLED OFF END OF
RUNWAY, MONROE, LA
INJURY DATA Total Fatal:
0
# Crew: 1 Fat:
0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat:
0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk:
# Grnd:
Fat: 0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk:
WEATHER: 2153Z 35005KT 10SM FEW075 SCT110 16/11 A2996
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase:
Landing Operation: General
Aviation
Departed: GADSDEN,
AL
Dep Date: 11/11/2002 Dep. Time: 2045
Destination: MONROE,
LA
Flt Plan: IFR
Wx Briefing: Y
Last Radio Cont: LOCAL CONTROL
Last Clearance: CLR TO LAND
FAA FSDO: BATON ROUGE, LA
(SW03)
Entry date: 11/12/2002
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